Startup Tip: Four Questions To Ask When Making Decisions Based On Metrics And Statistics

People are generally obsessed with metrics and statistics. Some on Twitter constantly talk about their number of followers or the number of lists on which they appear. Those on Facebook talk about how many friends they have. Bloggers talk about how many comments people have left in their blog or the number of times their posts have been tweeted. The media fixates on traffic to websites. Statistics and metrics are everywhere, and most people make decisions based, at least in part, on those statistics and metrics.

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[…] We tend to rely very heavily on metrics crowdSPRING andcan easily become distracted if we don’t smartly pick and choose the metrics that influence our decisions. Sometimes, we make the right decisions and focus on the right metrics. Other times, we make the wrong decisions and lose focus, paying attention to metrics that turn out not to be as relevant as we thought. (Last week, I suggested four questions you should ask when making decisions based on metrics and statistics). […]